Global Patent Index - EP 0660605 B1

EP 0660605 B1 20000510 - Video storage and delivery apparatus and method

Title (en)

Video storage and delivery apparatus and method

Title (de)

Gerät und Methode zur Speicherung und Verteilung von Videosignalen

Title (fr)

Appareil et méthode de stockage et de distribution de signaux vidéo

Publication

EP 0660605 B1 20000510 (EN)

Application

EP 94120740 A 19941227

Priority

  • JP 33052893 A 19931227
  • JP 28943694 A 19941124

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0660605A2] In a video storage and delivery apparatus (102-105) and a video storage and delivery system (Fig. 1), video data items are simultaneously supplied to a plurality of users (170, 172) while guaranteeing the time axis and the picture quality of the video data. The apparatus includes a frame address table (1408) which indicates a storage location in the apparatus of each frame of video data to start a special reproduction or a reproduction at a desired frame and a control unit (161) controlling a switch bus (140) connecting a plurality of video storage and delivery apparatuses to a plurality of channels so as to conduct data transfers via the switch bus between the apparatuses and between video reproduction devices of the users. From an optical disk data storage storing video data, a plurality of video data items are read in a timesharing fashion to be temporarily stored in a magnetic disk device or a semiconductor memory, thereby delivering the video data items therefrom to the users. <IMAGE>

IPC 1-7

H04N 5/765; H04N 5/926; H04N 7/10; H04N 7/173

IPC 8 full level

G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/765 (2006.01); H04N 5/926 (2006.01); H04N 5/93 (2006.01); H04N 7/10 (2006.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/231 (2011.01); H04N 21/2387 (2011.01); H04N 5/781 (2006.01); H04N 5/783 (2006.01); H04N 5/85 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP KR US)

H04N 5/926 (2013.01 - EP US); H04N 7/10 (2013.01 - EP US); H04N 7/12 (2013.01 - KR); H04N 5/765 (2013.01 - EP US); H04N 5/781 (2013.01 - EP US); H04N 5/783 (2013.01 - EP US); H04N 5/85 (2013.01 - EP US)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE FR GB

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0660605 A2 19950628; EP 0660605 A3 19951018; EP 0660605 B1 20000510; DE 69424389 D1 20000615; DE 69424389 T2 20010125; JP 3617089 B2 20050202; JP H07236132 A 19950905; KR 100334000 B1 20021004; KR 950022986 A 19950728; US 6005599 A 19991221

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 94120740 A 19941227; DE 69424389 T 19941227; JP 28943694 A 19941124; KR 19940036704 A 19941226; US 36333194 A 19941223